Caption: Astronomers have revealed the largest black hole merger to date. This illustration shows how the merger would appear to our eyes if we could somehow travel in a spaceship for a closer look.

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

The black holes – one roughly 140 times the mass of the Sun and the other about 100 solar masses – fused into one pit of ...

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through ...

This colossal collision, which occurred about 10 billion light-years from Earth, was detected in November 2023 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in ...

If black holes weren't terrifying enough, two especially large ones are merging together, experts have discovered.